RUNWAY LIGHTS: CALLING HOME "All our thoughts are dreams mid-air constructions collapsing, even as we climb the ladder to reach them." The Dreams of Atoms This book of poetry by Charles Chase is the second of four that will bear the title "Runway Lights." In this collection, Chase has brought together poems under the theme "surreal and humorous poems." As the author says in his Note to the Reader, "This book is about the absurdity of human beings, how funny they are to watch, and how mysterious, sad, and lonely it can feel to be one." Some of the poems in Runway Lights: Calling Home are...

Why do we remember the experiences we do, when so much that is seen and heard is forgotten? This is one of the fundamental questions that lie behind the poems in Charles Chase's Runway Lights: The Unknown and Forgotten. Some of the poems in this volume portray the relationships of parents, family members and friends, encompassing the highly personal dramas and traumas of the poet's childhood, as well as imagined events and characters. Which episodes are real and which are imagined is not always clear; some poems contain both. All of which speaks to the nature of memory: since the real (and...